A serif is the tiny stroke at the end of the main strokes of a font character. A font family that does not have these serifs is called a sansserif font. Sansserif fonts are best used online, as they are easier to read there. On the Web serifs can make the fonts more difficult to read, especially at small sizes, but sansserif fonts do not have this problem.
The saturation of a color is a representation of how pure the color is. The more saturated a color is, the closer to the hue it appears, and the less saturated it is, the more muddy or gray it appears.
A script is a small bit of code that enables web browsers to do something rather than just displaying static results. Scripts are used in web design to create dynamic pages and DHTML. The most commonly used scripting language in web design is JavaScript, but many developers also write scripts in ActiveX.
A CSS selector is the part of a CSS style call that identifies what part of the web page should be styled
Semantic markup is XHTML that has been written to define the context of the content enclosed in the markup. This means that headers would be defined by <h1> through <h6> elements, paragraphs with <p> elements, lists with <ol> and <ul> elements, and so on. Tags that only have a meaning referring to style, such as <b> and <i> should be avoided in favor of tags that provide a semantic meaning along with their standard styles, such as <strong> and <em>
Stands for Search Engine Optimisation. Group of techniques and recommendations for getting a website to appear within the first results of search engines when searching for certain keywords. These techniques are normally focussed on gaining content related to the website’s sector, and selecting the best keywords for a content block to be easily found.
A serif is the tiny stroke at the end of the main strokes of a font character. A font family that does not have these serifs is called a sansserif font. Sansserif fonts are best used online, as they are easier to read there. On the Web serifs can make the fonts more difficult to read, especially at small sizes, but sans-serif fonts do not have this problem.
SGML stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language. It is a markup language used to define documents. SGML describes the structure of a document and is the basis for both HTML and XML.
A singleton tag is a tag that doesn't have a required end tag. In XHTML, they are closed with an ending slash in the same tag. e.g.
Measure for counting the number of visits of one certain website. These visits can be real users or automated programs (robots) visiting this website with any purpose of attack, fraud or damaging the website’s content. If it is an attack against the website, protecting the website with captcha codes could be a good protection method, as it forces the interaction with a real user. It is also used for increasing this page’s value, or its pay-per click cost.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) an- XML-based protocol to allow you to activate an application or object within an application across the Internet. SOAP was developed by various companies (one of them being Microsoft) and it created the basis for applications named web services.
It is a document defining the rules on how the Web applications, such as the use of elements, dependencies, interaction with other technologies, etc.
The term that determines how specific we must be for the CSS rules defined to be correctly applied to the document elements, so as much elements and more complex the web document, more specificity rules we must specify.
It consists in continuously distributing multimedia contents from a server to a client in real time. The distribution is made through broadcast, so many users can enjoy the same content at the same time. Contents are, mainly, audios and videos, but they can also be just audios (such as mp3 or poadcasts), and they are distributed through the platforms HTML allows to use or from a streaming server specially designed for this. One of streaming’s main advantages is that it allows to follow events in real time (through online TV), and it also allows to watch big-format videos with no need to download them. Streaming is also used by companies to ensure their users can only watch their contents through their website, which is a way to control the author’s copyright, although it is not a completely safe method.
Distinctive appearance from the elements within a webpage. It includes color, position, size, and sometimes even sound
A subdomain is a more specific portion of a domain name. Subdomains are used to divide up Web domains without registering a new domain name. Subdomains use the Web server to define the location of files for that site, rather than using DNS. The easiest way to do this is to set up virtual hosting.
